Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Comprehensive analysis of moral rights in the new and growing environment of digital technology

Written by an expert in international copyright, patents and moral rights.

Provides practitioners with a theoretical and practical assessment of the challenges that the role of moral rights faces in a digital environment with helpful examples and a look toward the future of the concept if moral rights as applied to copyright law.

Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Description

The doctrine of moral rights is based on the idea that authors have a special bond with their own creative work. At present, the legal status of moral rights demands clarification and assessment as never before, particularly as the international expansion of moral rights occurs in the new environment of digital technology. Just as the survival of copyright law depends on its capacity to adapt effectively to the new technological environment, a new approach to moral rights is imperative.

Moral Rights: Principles, Practice and New Technology is the first work to comprehensively address the role and challenges of moral rights in an environment of digital technology The problem is addressed from both practical and theoretical channels, and examples drawn from the legislation and practice of key jurisdictions around the world. The book concludes with a consideration of how the concept of moral rights can contribute to the re-organization of copyright law in a digital context.

Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION: MORAL RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGEII. MORAL RIGHTS: HISTORY OF AN IDEAIII. A THEORY IN FLUX: THE EVOLUTION IN PROGRESS OF MORAL RIGHTSIV. MORAL RIGHTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT REGIMEV. THE PROGRAMMER AS AUTHOR:

VI. MORE THAN MUSICIANS: MORAL RIGHTS AND DIGITAL ISSUES IN MUSICVII. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CLASSICS: FILM AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE COLLABORATIVE WORKVIII. FRIENDS OR ENEMIES? MORAL RIGHTS AND OPEN ACCESSIX. CONCLUSION: MORAL RIGHTS AND THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW

Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Author Information

Mira T. Sundara Rajan is the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at the University of British Columbia. She has published widely on copyright issues, including a scholarly book entitled Copyright and Creative Freedom, Routledge 2006. Her work is also well-known in the European Union, where she collaborates regularly with EU bodies such as the Council of Europe, and with a number of patent offices in EU countries. She is also the editor of Intellectual Property: Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States published with regular updates by Oxford University Press. She is an expert on Indian and Russian copyright law.

Moral Rights

Principles, Practice and New Technology

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Reviews and Awards

"An imperative read for anyone who cares for creativity." --D. Murali, The Hindu Business Line

"An interesting read. Those who are not familiar with moral rights or copyright law may want to read it as a whole, as a collection of stimulating issues, not just regarding moral rights, but also regarding economic rights. Scholars in the field who are already well-read on the doctrine of moral rights and its history can still benefit by focusing on Sundara Rajan's overview of moral rights regimes that are not as well known in the Western hemisphere, in particular the previously under-explored countries of Russia and India." --Cyrill P. Rigamonti, The IP Law Book Review